The q/acc protocol combines the potency of Quadratic Funding (QF) with the many advantages of Augmented Bonding Curves (ABC), leveraging tokenization to optimize alignment of key stakeholders - the projects, the protocols and grant sponsors, and community - in the web3 grant space.

Each season accepts up to 10 projects into our 10-week program. During that time projects will launch their ABC tokens, invite KOL, contributors and others to have priority access to the team and token, and join their first q/acc round where those early supporters may acquire tokens, and the quadratic matching pool funds will build secondary market liquidity for projects. 

After completing a season, projects may participate in all future q/acc rounds.

First there was e/acc, then there was d/acc and now there is q/acc. We hold an unshakeable faith that the future will be tokenized. Building on the shoulders of giant ideas like QF and ABC, q/acc takes us one step closer to that future.

A bonding curve is a smart contract that algorithmically determines a token’s price, typically increasing as more tokens are minted, based on it’s circulating supply.

An Augmented Bonding Curve (ABC) provides the same automatic liquidity and dampened price volatility as other bonding curves and introduces two modifications: transaction tributes, and a vesting mechanism that can be applied to the initial tokens minted or any subsequent token mints and redemptions. 

Find out more on Commons Stack’s ABC page.

Quadratic Funding is a democratic funding mechanism where the amount of allocation from a matching pool that a project receives is proportional to the number of contributors. It optimizes for broad-based support by giving more weight to the number of individual contributions rather than the total amount of money contributed. 

The q/acc protocol used the same quadratic matching formula as QF. 

Find out more on the WTF is QF site or on Gitcoin’s QF site.

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If you need to get in touch with us, email qacc@giveth.io.